Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three ...

NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) orbiter has been a cornerstone of Mars exploration for over a decade. However, after an unexpected communication blackout that lasted for more ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, launched November 2013 and entered Mars orbit in September 2014. After more than a decade of cutting edge orbital science, ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation ...

Eleven years in Mars orbit, terabytes of vital information on the Martian atmosphere, and over half a billion dollars in government funding. This is what was brought into peril on December 6th, 2025, ...

The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is ...

ESA orbiters watched a May 2024 solar superstorm flood Mars’ upper air with electrons and trigger spacecraft glitches. (CREDIT: SOHO (ESA & NASA), NASA/SDO/AIA, JHelioviewer/D. Müller) A storm from ...

In May 2024, Earth was slammed by the worst geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years, which disrupted radio signals, power grids, and satellites. The storm originated from an active solar region known ...

The four Artemis II astronauts in Orion are preparing for their lunar flyby on Monday, April 6, during which they will be ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. The orbiter, one of three zooming around Mars' atmosphere, had been working as expected before it ...